Regional Lead Technician – Maintenance & Operations

KAG SERVICES INC; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kenan Advantage Group, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Lead Technician to oversee the operation of the home shop and regional locations in the Las Vegas area. You will supervise maintenance of all equipment, manage vendor relationships, and ensure safe operation.

This role mentors Lead Technicians and Shop Foremen, travels 25-50% to designated shops, reviews repair orders, and contributes to reporting metrics to the Director of Regional Maintenance.

Qualifications

• 5 years of Lead Technician experience.
• Minimum 5-years of experience in heavy-duty vehicle maintenance & repair.
• Air brake certification in compliance with FMCSR 396.25
• Certified as a (DOT) commercial motor vehicle inspector in compliance with FMCSR’s.
• EPA 609 certification (Motor Vehicle Air Conditioning Repair)
• Valid driver’s license
• Advanced computer knowledge
• Become qualified as necessary with appropriate certifications to perform recent technology evaluations, diagnosis, and repairs
• Available to travel 25-50%

Responsibilities

• Support and direct shop leads/terminal managers on making fact-based maintenance minded decisions in line with established corporate policies.
• Monitor data recording compliance and usage to include open/complete repair orders, open/complete purchase orders, flagged warranty items, chronic repair log, PM due reports, direct/indirect labor logs, system usage
• Review vendor repair orders/estimates to authorize work to be performed and/or payment.
• Support regional operations team in any initiative to move equipment/support business needs.
• Maintain OOS logs to accurately identify equipment issues and to be aware of fleet readiness.
• Travel to shops within designated regions to develop, monitor and support maintenance initiatives.
• Accumulate data for OOS service equipment (asset work sheets, estimates) to determine if equipment is worth repairing. This would be in tandem with Operations and the Lead Technician. Make recommendation to Director of Regional Maintenance.
• Monitor maintenance system for repair orders open over seven days and follow up on each repair to find out delay of completion.
• Review invoices from outside vendors to include leased/program maintenance vehicle invoices for accuracy/fairness.
• Attend weekly conference calls with operations.
• Review and send reporting metrics to Director of Maintenance, Regional Operations and BUL (direct vs indirect, system utilization, PM currency, equipment utilization, parts cycle counts)
• Continually evaluate and when needed recommend changes to shop staffing levels to ensure operational and fleet needs can be achieved. (do we have enough employees to perform the work at hand or do we have too many)
• Direct feedback to Terminal Manager and Director of Regional Maintenance on Tech performance for annual reviews
• Assist with interviewing potential new techs and make recommendations to operations.

Skills

Lead Technician

Heavy-duty vehicle maintenance

Advanced computer knowledge

Education

Air brake certification FMCSR 396.25

DOT commercial motor vehicle inspector

EPA 609 certification

Valid driver’s license

Job description

Kenan Advantage Group, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Lead Technician to oversee the operation of the home shop and regional locations in the Las Vegas area. You will supervise maintenance of all equipment, manage vendor relationships, and ensure safe operation.

This role mentors Lead Technicians and Shop Foremen, travels 25-50% to designated shops, reviews repair orders, and contributes to reporting metrics to the Director of Regional Maintenance.